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...It’s interesting to explore after a day game—to find a way to make it work. There’s merit to have the residual crowd of 35,000 stick around to watch,” Steinberg said...
...there’s something to be said for a movie (Old School and Meet the Parents immediately come to mind) that can make me laugh continuously for an hour and a half. That is an accomplishment that is rarely replicated in the independent film community and holds merit far beyond the average half-assed comic-book adaptation...
...high school, Peter—class valedictorian, an Eagle Scout and a National Merit Scholar—always rose to the top. Now, without any plans for next year, his steady string of rejections has taken a visible toll. He slouches in the booth. He avoids eye contact. His speech is self-effacing and marked with anger directed toward his more successful peers. “Around all these ambitious people, you need to have a job or you’re considered worthless,” he says as he places his soup firmly back on the table...
Goonan touches on an important point: rejection is not strictly based on merit. It is also based on fit. For Peter and others, years of accumulated success have led them to mindlessly judge themselves based on measures respected within the academy—admissions, job offers and grades. But rejection at Harvard often extends beyond these matters and into areas where assessing merit is more difficult...
...major employer would look at this and say there seems to be some merit in unifying all those forces,” said LaBua in June. “We are in the process of looking to unify the existing security guard force...